Should Ponyboy Stay

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400,000 children currently wait in foster care.About 23,000 age out of foster care ,60% will convict a crime.Only 6% will finish a college degree.If Ponyboy was sent to the foster care he would probably have a bad education and have a big crime record.In the book when ponyboy gets the newspaper from two-bit it says that Darry works 2 jobs and that soda dropped out school so they could stay together.some people say that Ponyboy should go to foster care because Darry is not a good garidan. Ponyboy should stay because his brothers are the only family he has.
Ponyboy should stay with Darry because he wants to Ponyboy should stay with his family and he to have his brothers because that's all the family he has. Ponyboy wants to stay with Darry because he wants to. “It was a really nice night I guess I was still out of shape because …show more content…
“Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, three of us getting to stay together as long as we behave.” This quote shows that Ponyboy to stay with Darry and soda because they are the only family Ponyboy has. It also shows that Ponyboy will lose his brothers (the only family he has) and go to foster care. “My father was forty when he died and he look like 25 and had a lot of people think that Darry and dad were brothers instead of father and son.” The quote shows that Ponyboy has no dad and the oldest one in the family is Darry. The quote shows that Darry and sodapop are his only family left. So Ponyboy should stay with Darry because his brothers are the only family he has. Ponyboy to stay with Darry because he wants to. Ponyboy to stay with Darry and soda pop because that's all the family Ponyboy has. Ponyboy to stay with Darry because he wants to and he is a good guardian. Ponyboy should stay with his brothers because Darry and Sodapop are his only family left. Why shouldn’t Ponyboy stay with Darry? Why should the system take Ponyboy’s only

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